Ra Ra Riot - Need Your Light
2 Stars
‘Need Your Light’ represents another stumble in the New Yorkers’ career.
19th February 2016
Album Reviews
Animal Collective - Painting With
4 Stars
An album about doing away with boundaries, escaping definition, and running riot.
19th February 2016
Jack Garratt - Phase
3 Stars
His USP is somewhat dimmed by hours and hours of carefully chosen layers, vocals and everything else in between.
19th February 2016
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
4 Stars
Wild Nothing take an unmistakable euphoria and drive it home.
19th February 2016
TEEN - Love Yes
4 Stars
‘Love Yes’ serves as the most iridescent article of TEEN’s discography.
19th February 2016
Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
4 Stars
Nothing is overstated or particularly complex, but it’s in the little flairs of trickery littered throughout each track that Mothers really come alive.
18th February 2016
Yuck - Stranger Things
4 Stars
There’s a gnashing bite to the London band these days.
18th February 2016
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
4 Stars
An attention to detail like no other.
17th February 2016
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
4 Stars
‘SVIIB’ may be the full stop on the band’s work together, but it’s an album that will stand as the perfect goodbye.
12th February 2016
So Pitted - neo
3 Stars
This is an offensive blitz into the unknown with occasional hints that So Pitted might be onto something.
12th February 2016
DIIV - Is The Is Are
4 Stars
On ‘Is The Is Are’, everything carries more meaning; he’s well and truly made his point here.
5th February 2016
Porches - Pool
3 Stars
The promising beginnings of a musician who’s finally starting to find his feet.
5th February 2016
Telegram - Operator
4 Stars
Other rock debuts this year may well prove more immediately accessible, but few are likely to be as thrillingly original.
5th February 2016
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
4 Stars
‘The Album Paranoia’ could so easily serve as the soundtrack to a trip through space-time.
5th February 2016
Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
3 Stars
‘Human Ceremony’ isn’t anywhere near fault-free, but its charm arrives when the trio get ahead of themselves.
5th February 2016
Field Music - commontime
2 Stars
In the end, this is an album with a whimsical construct that fails to live up to its musical promise.
5th February 2016
Cross Record - Wabi-Sabi
4 Stars
The brilliance of this Cross Record album, ‘Wabi-Sabi’, is in how perfect calm gets broken by a terrifying storm.
29th January 2016
Basement - Promise Everything
4 Stars
‘Promise Everything’ epitomises all of the reasons fans were so eager for their hiatus to end.
29th January 2016
Sia - This Is Acting
3 Stars
Acting this may be, but Sia is a more interesting prospect when she goes off-script.
29th January 2016
Wet - Don’t You
4 Stars
Unflinchingly honest, Wet don’t specialise in happy endings, but they’re always telling a good story.
29th January 2016
Tuff Love - Resort
3 Stars
‘Resort’ allows their promise to be condensed into a single release, and if a debut album follows soon, the momentum could take them to big things.
29th January 2016
Your Friend - Gumption
3 Stars
It’s almost entirely a deeply interesting and cleverly crafted debut.
29th January 2016
MONEY - Suicide Songs
3 Stars
An album that’s excellent at times, but which arrived with preconceptions so strong that could never be matched.
29th January 2016
Milk Teeth - Vile Child
4 Stars
Milk Teeth are defined as much by days spent staring at the ceiling as those chugging cider down the park.
27th January 2016
Featuring Finn Wolfhard, FLO, Jungle, Mystery Jets and more.